Portal:University of Oxford/On this day/January 25

Births

• 1935 – J. G. Farrell (Brasenose), novelist
• 1949 – Sir Paul Nurse (Linacre), geneticist and Nobel Prize winner

Deaths

• 1640 – Robert Burton (Brasenose and Christ Church), priest and scholar
• 2011 – Vincent Cronin (Trinity), historian